How to Remove Write Protection on USB drives? [Fixed]

Write protection is any physical mechanism that prevents modification or erasure of
valuable data on a device. Most commercial software, audio and video are sold
pre-protected. This helps the creators to maintain the integrity of their
products.

It is useful and widely used business and private area. If a USB drive
is write protected, it will be impossible to format that USB, also we cannot
copy or move anything on that drive anymore. On this tutorial, we will teach
you how to remove write protection from a storage device.

Note:You can
remove the write protection of a USB drive only from the PC, using which the
write protection is created. That means if you created a write protection on a
USB using a PC, you need to use the same PC to remove that protection.

There are two methods to remove a write protection, the first one is
making changes in the registry keys, and the second one is using the command
prompt.

We think the second method is a bit easier and today we are going to use
that method.

Now let’s start

Removing write protection using command prompt

Step 1: First you need to insert the USB drive into the PC which the write protection was created.